Alone Quotes

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

People with fertility problems are not alone. It is a very very common problem for couples today. I've seen statistics that are just staggering.

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid.

There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.

Perhaps he wanted to be alone with Dr. G., who was here, but he should have let me know. At Hoffmann's I felt I was sitting on hot coals, expecting him to arrive every moment.

Friends are very important to me, and I have always had many of them. There are probably many reasons why this is so, but two seem to me more valid than any of the others I am a naturally friendly person, and I hate to be alone.

The dream, alone, is of interest. What is life, without a dream?

The Union, which can alone insure internal peace, and external security to each State, Must and Shall be Preserved, cost what it may in time, treasure, and blood.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

I'm learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I'm doing.

Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.

Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.

Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek out some terrible lurking thing in existence and hurl themselves upon it. Women know where it lives but they can let it alone.

Shockingly, a University of Pennsylvania study says the number of young people addicted to gambling - largely due to increased exposure to the Internet and Internet gambling - grew by an alarming 20 percent between 2004 and 2005 alone.

I alone, as the sharer of their way of life, presented a replica of childhood.

When you have two busy kids running around the house, returning e-mails is a task, let alone surfing the web.

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.

We concluded that you cannot rely on delta hedging alone. It sounds simplistic to say that now, but back then, this was the sort of thing people were only just beginning to realize.

The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.

In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.

One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits.

The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone.

It is well to be alone. It fertilizes the creative impulse.

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.